June 2004 News
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Irish bank ditches Windows in favour of Linux
Allied Irish Banks (AIB) has signed a deal with Sun to switch its 7,500 branches' desktops from Windows to the Linux-based Java...30 Jun 2004
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US court rules against Child Online Protection Act
The US Supreme Court has sided with a previous court injunction against a law intended to protect children from sexually explicit...30 Jun 2004
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GE outsources more coding to India
General Electric (GE) is stepping up its outsourcing of software development to India and contracted MindTree Consulting in...30 Jun 2004
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Storage company doubles tape rack capacity
Storage Technology has produced a new 100TByte tape library that slots into a standard rack size but provides twice as much...30 Jun 2004
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New security threat targets online banking customers
Internet banking customers have been warned of a new security threat which uses a browser add-on to steal login information for...30 Jun 2004
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IBM server breaks records
IBM has claimed a record result for its eServer i5 Model 520 in the two-tier SAP Sales & Distribution (SD) Standard Application...30 Jun 2004
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Intel takes up 64-bit baton
Intel will release a server version of its 64-bit extensions technology for its x86 platform in 60 days, and as users refresh...30 Jun 2004
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Amazon countersues Toys R Us
Amazon has filed a counterclaim against Toysrus as the two companies escalate their battle over an increasingly contentious...30 Jun 2004
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System automatically feeds pacemaker data into EMR
US doctors have begun using software that integrates data from a patient's pacemaker into an electronic medical record system.30 Jun 2004
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Microsoft sweetens database appeal to developers
Microsoft will roll out a new set of offerings to sweeten the appeal of its SQL Server database to the 18 million...30 Jun 2004
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Flextronics takes over Nortel manufacturing
Nortel Networks is to shift the last of its manufacturing operations to Flextronics next year.30 Jun 2004
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Microsoft focuses on developers at Tech Ed Europe
Microsoft has kicked off its Tech Ed Europe conference in Amsterdam with a clear effort to broaden development community by...30 Jun 2004
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Microsoft settles another class-action suit
Microsoft has settled another class-action lawsuit, this time with customers in Massachusetts.30 Jun 2004
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Banks, brokerages dogged by e-mail regulations
IT managers in the financial services industry are finding it difficult to comply with e-mail regulations.30 Jun 2004
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Sun dancing SOA tune with Project Disco
Sun Microsystems is previewing prototype tools technology, code-named Project Disco, for visually developing web services that...30 Jun 2004
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SEC takes Siebel back to court over disclosure rules
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against Siebel Systems, charging the company and two top...30 Jun 2004
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GPs criticised for boycotting NHS Care Records Service
An organisation representing NHS IT professionals has criticised GPs for voting to boycott the new NHS national care records...30 Jun 2004
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JBoss closing in on J2EE certification
Open source software vendor JBoss Inc., which has offered an open source Java application server sans J2EE certification, is...30 Jun 2004
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Sun chides Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat
Sun Microsystems chairman and CEO Scott McNealy extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Red Hat Inc. to join the Java...30 Jun 2004
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Virus hits Indian BPO networks
Infosys Technologies, a leading Bangalore-based software and business process outsourcing (BPO) company, had to bring down its...30 Jun 2004
